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Roxanne Panchasi, Future Tense: The Culture of Anticipation in France between the Wars (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009). Is there anything more to say about the nervous tragedy of French [...]

The politics of filmic reconstruction and reenactment as forms of historical representation are explored in the light of the 1999 Peter Watkins film 'La Commune' (Paris, 1871) that is situated in relationship to debates regarding the contemporary media's versions of the past. It is argued that the film's anachronisms are intentionally placed to question assumptions about objectivity, authenticity and temporality that define History as a discipline.

Laura-Lee Downs, Children in the Promised Land: Working-Class Movements and the Colonies de Vacances in France, 1880-1960 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press 2002) IN THE INTRODUCTION to Childhood in the [...]

Over 2000 nuclear weapons explosions were conducted worldwide between 1945 and 1996. Most of these high-yield explosions took place at nuclear test sites in the Global South: among them, the Algerian Sahara and the Kazakh steppe, where their respective colonising powers (at the time) France and the Soviet Union tested their nuclear arsenal. Contemporary Algeria and Kazakhstan still bear the egregious impact of these nuclear tests. The perceptions and demands of the local population, including victims and survivors of the testing, related to addressing the nuclear past have not been comprehensively investigated. Little is known about the local-regional resistance to these tests, aside from the Sahara Protest Team in 1959 and the anti-nuclear Nevada-Semipalatinsk movement in 1989. Our aim is to develop this line of research by considering the links between anti-nuclear movements and colonialism in Algeria and Kazakhstan. By revisiting these cases using a decolonial lens, we develop a more comprehensive understanding of resistance to nuclear testing in the Global South. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]